......and to Megan, for a few weeks she kept asking if I had checked out a blog she came across.
The blog is SuziBlu, she is amazing and an inspirational goddess.
Of particular interest are the videos she posts, especially the ones related to How to Keep an Art Journal. With each video she gives simple exercises and her little gems of wisdom are excellent - they are all things that we know but are easy to forget.
I have completed two exercises which are the journal pages on this post.
The first exercise (besides getting a journal) is 
Getting rid of Your Excuses to make art/journal everyday, and to give a reason why you should do it. This is the mauve, green & blue page. Yes, that's a photo of me as a baby.
Another great exercise is the self portrait which is the red page. It doesn't really look like me but that's the point of the exercise. I did this with her words in my head.
Some of her great wisdoms that really ring true with me, and have stayed with me since first hearing, so far are the following (which aren't all from the same video):
- That everyone starts somewhere and it all starts with making art.
- Practrice being kind to ourselves because if we make bad art we might think that it isn't good enough and that we don't deserve to make art, maybe we will be nicer to ourselves when our pictures don't come out exactly the way we want.
- This is a process. One awkward drawing leads to a stronger one, it will eventually, it's just a skill, your hands will eventually know what to do.
- All art is valid.
